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How Do Unions Renew? Paths to Union Renewal

LABOR STUDIES JOURNAL, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Fall 2006): 1-13. Published for the United Association for Labor Education by the West Virginia University Press, P.O. Box 6295, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506

Gregor Murray

LABOR STUDIES JOURNAL, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Fall 2006): 1-13. Published for the United Association for Labor Education by the West Virginia University Press, P.O. Box 6295, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506

How are unions responding to change? Are they renewing? Drawing on the CRIMT International Colloquium on Union Renewal, this introductory paper presents the overarching themes in this special thematic issue of Labor Studies Journal. After a synoptic overview of the range of cases and methodological issues highlighted by the papers, three sets of issues are presented: the need to enhance basic union efficiency or instrumentality, the importance of union governance and internal organization, and the need to rethink union resources. The development of collective identities, the mobilization of external expertise and networks, and the development of union leadership are identified as key resources in the union renewal process and as important subjects for further research.

Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3, 1-13 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0160449X0603100301


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